Sunday, February 27, 2011

Student Kills Teacher

Huynh allegedly argued with the instructor Wednesday before leaving the classroom, returned with a firearm and shot Herrera in the head at near point-blank range, Lt. Paul Vernon of the Los Angeles Police Department said at the time.

What's your opinion? Don't you think teachers have a difficult enough time getting through to students without worrying if they have guns or not? Is this what Wayne La Pierre means when he says "the ones with the guns make the rules?" How does that work when students argue with teachers?

10 comments:

This has to be a lie. California is the Brady dream state for gun control and we all know that schools are gun free zones and that those under 21 are prohibited from owning a handgun. Since we know gun control works, this cannot be a true story.

AztecRed, they obviously shouldn't have permitted this shooter to buy a gun - but did.

Fat White Man, while I'm sure you were trying to make fun of this tragedy - and what does that say about your priorities? - your comment shows you clearly didn't read the link. Here is the first sentence:"A 22-year-old student arrested in the shooting death of his vocational school instructor was charged with murder Friday, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office announced."

Do you simply not care what the facts are when forming your opinion? Because that would seem to be the case here.

"AztecRed, they obviously shouldn't have permitted this shooter to buy a gun - but did."

Considering that the shooter was in training to be a security guard, he's the exact type of person that mikeb and the rest of the Brady Bunch believes should not only be permitted to buy a gun, but also be permitted to carry it on school campuses.

Aztec Red wrote:"...he's the exact type of person that mikeb and the rest of the Brady Bunch believes should not only be permitted to buy a gun, but also be permitted to carry it on school campuses."

Is he? I don't think MikeB has argued for anyone to carry a gun that was :1. not part of his job at the time he was carrying - which this was not, since he was present as a student;

or,

2. that MikeB has ever felt it was important for anyone other than the Police Department to be armed at a place of education.

But if I missed where MikeB advocated for either of those things, please point them out to me. My impression so far, although I'm a relative new-comer to his blog, is that both MikeB and I believe that a civil socieity does not require people to be armed to the teeth with knives or guns or .....fill in the blank.

If you can't point those out to me about MikeB, then I believe you have utterly failed to understand his positions on guns (or mine).

"So someone committed a violent crime with a firearm - what does that have to do with me or any other law-abiding gun owner who wouldn't do such a thing?"

Since the good-guys-gone-bad and the hidden criminals look and act just like you and the others "who wouldn't do such a thing," unfortunately, all of you have to be inconvenienced a bit. The "infringement" on your sacred rights would be minimal and the gain by disarming bad guys would be great.